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6.7% - March 1st! I don’t care what the weather says, winter is OVER. 100

50.6% - The Equinox. One simply doesn’t argue with the power of the planets. 750

29.7% - The first day it’s sunny and I don’t need a jacket. It’s all about temperature. 440

6.4% - The first time I see a flower. It’s all about ME! 95

6.6% - I follow the Julian calendar so I have a lot of wiggle room on that.98

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johnnymercer

StarM

Been Spring all winter here in S Texas -- first mosquito bit was in late January. Hammock never came down, and didn't have to pull out patio heater.

Lots of Winter Texans too.

"We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy." Benjamin Franklin

spiralspeaker11

Whichever calendar company started calling the quarters the "first day" of the season has my eternal ire. Check any ooooold calendar or almanac: the solstices and equinoxes mark the middle of the season (that's why they used to be called MIDsummer and MIDwinter). The cross quarters mark the transition between seasons. The first day of spring this year was February 3rd.

rtfirefly

I need a bumper sticker that says, "The 23° tilt in the Earth's axis is the reason for the season(s)."

And March is neither winter nor spring, at least here in the mid-Atlantic. It rarely snows in March, so it's not winter, but the grass isn't growing, the trees aren't leafing in, and you rarely get a day that makes you think it would be a waste to spend the day inside.

Instead, you get a lot of days where the high is 52°, the low is 35°, and more or less equal chances of its being sunny, overcast, or a cold rain.

I can say more positive things about any other month, including February which at least has the possibility of real snow, than about March.

Oh, and daylight savings time now comes way too early, plunging us back into morning darkness. The first Sunday after the Equinox would be about right.

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